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No Tankers: The Straight Goods

September 19, 2008 | 

One of Plato’s major rants in writing The Republic is targeted at the Sophists, who represented a school of thought that emphasized rhetoric as the primary and most essential ...

How to Tackle Tar Sands Dogma: More Beer

September 4, 2008 | 

Sometimes it’s difficult to break through messaging, poor media coverage, and casual opinions (i.e. collectively known as bullsh*t) on an issue to the extent that you can productively talk ...

Oil Industry Injustice

September 2, 2008 | 

These days, two things keep me up at night, and probably will continue to do so for a long time to come. The first is climate change. It seems ...

Robert Bateman defaces painting

August 19, 2008 | 

  Concept: Rethink Communications Director and Editor: Bill Weaver, Across Borders Media; Cinematography: David Malysheff, Gamut Productions / Bill Weaver; Music: Niels Petersen, Lebeau-Petersen Productions; And, many thanks to ...

Following The Money in Privatization Scandal

August 8, 2008 | 

To get to the bottom of the Watergate scandal Deep Throat advised investigative journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to “follow the money”. Anyone trying to understand the scandal ...

Fishy Business in the Hague

August 8, 2008 | 

I recently returned from the land of windmills, wooden shoes, and Royal Dutch Shell. I was in The Hague, Shell’s international HQ, to draw attention at their annual shareholder ...

Companies’ push for supertankers unpopular with British Columbians

August 7, 2008 | 

Victoria – Energy companies pushing for a tanker port on the BC’s coast are in for strong opposition according to a Synovate poll released today by a coalition of ...

Telling Stories from 2050- How Do BC Forests Fare?

June 20, 2008 | 

Yesterday I was part of a ‘forest futures’ scenario project developed by the Sustainable Forest Management Network of Canada (SFMN).  The project has been compiling input on four futuristic ...

Crashing Shell's Party

June 9, 2008 | 

A giant wind turbine rotated slowly within view of the entrance to the Liberty Grand Entertainment Complex in Toronto, providing a fitting backdrop for the Gala of the 2008 ...